Great for travel. Surprisingly convenient at home.
Apple, Motorola, Samsung, Sony and other big tech companies have been working hard to create all-in-one gadgets with multiple functionality. But a funny thing happened as they designed gadgets that do more—consumers bought more gadgets. Between smart phones, portable gaming devices, tablet computers, digital cameras, Bluetooth headsets, GPS ...
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The new Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire
Online super seller Amazon announced today a completely revised line-up of their Kindle family of eBook readers and tablet computers. The announcement included good news for nearly everyone (except perhaps Apple—we'll get to that in a bit).
For the thrifty, there's the new entry-level Kindle that can be had ...
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Three concepts of what an Apple-built car would be
If there's one product outside of the computer and portable electronics markets we wish Apple would design, it's a car.
Spot Cool Stuff is a big fan of nearly everything Apple. Yes, their products aren't inexpensive. But they are almost universally well designed, well built and user friendly—not to ...
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Send text messages (and tweets) from anywhere on Earth
In a previous post we reviewed the Spot (no relation to Spot Cool Stuff), a portable GPS tracker and SOS satellite messenger. In addition to keeping a catrographical record of your travels, the Spot let you send out SOS messages to emergency responders.
Send out—but not receive. And even ...
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Grocery shop while waiting for the train
South Korea is the second-hardest working country in the world1. All those hours at the office don't leave much time for food shopping. So when England-based grocery store chain Tesco (called Homeplus locally) wanted to expand their market share in the Korean capital they looked to a place ...
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Reduce power consumption for more laptop time
Laptops are the epitome of convenience and mobile work efficiency. And that makes battery life an especially key feature to consider when shopping for laptops—nobody wants to find themselves out of power.
Nearly every computer manufacturer advertizes their laptops as having X hours of battery life. That can ...
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